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Warning: This Book Will Make You Laugh
Dennis Fenichel is a clinical psychologist/psychology professor who has sung and done improv comedy professionally on the side. This collection of humorous essays has been described as Woody Allen meets Lewis Carroll meets Groucho Marx. The author melds his experience as a psychotherapist with his wacky comedic imagination in writing about romance on the Net, interspecies dating, dental hygiene, the origin of the polka, and God's take on the state of the world. You will meet characters in these essays who will leave indelible imprints on your memory, that may require years of therapy to expunge.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Dennis Fenichel | | Paperback: | 252 pages | | Publisher: | Outskirts Press | | Publication Date: | January 10, 2008 | | ISBN: | 1432718967 | | Package Length: | 7.9 inches | | Package Width: | 4.8 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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 Snickers, Snuffles and Sniffles May 20, 2008
And a few groans thrown in.
Our minds travel to crazy places throughout each day, but most of those trips are lost as errant little side trips creep in. Our minds work in freeform, hopping and skipping from one bit of craziness to another. Somehow Dennis Fenichel manages to get it down. And to organize it into chapters. He takes us on his own little trip through his mind filled with totally silly and highly recognizable characters. He loves the world of words, and uses them to point out the ridiculous and the sensible. And he makes us laugh. There are a few tears, as his title predicts, and what would this world be without them? But what could be more healthy than finding the humor throughout life's journey? This book is human, and is just a fun read. Take it on your next flight.
Do Not Exceed Recommended Dose Apr 08, 2008
There should be an additional warning on this book. Something such as, "Do not exceed recommended dose." I am afraid for some, that this may be the case.
To be honest, when I began reading this book I thought the humor was just plain silly, goofy, nonsensicle madness (Sorry Mr. Fenichel)
As I got drawn further into the stories however, I realized that this madness does have meaning. I found that the stories were really observations or lessons about life. Lessons about us, as humans.
Does this understanding make us mad as well? I don't believe so. I think it makes us realize that we are all a little goofy at times and that humor can be (is) the only way to therapize one's self.
Dare I say that I recognized myself in this book?
In the end I learned more about how we (humans) interact with each other and how we doubt ourselves in those interactions.
After all these years, I thought it was just me.. (Thanks, Mr. Fenichel)
I highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from "Life"
If you really want to laugh in the mirror; read this book!
To those who understand funny... Apr 02, 2008
Let's see...who better than a psychologist to have some fun at the expense of the human condition? These stories are irreverent and satirical, yet insightful. If you enjoy reading all the things you wanted to say but didn't have the intestinal fortitude to, you'll love this. If you enjoy plays on words and mincing words, Dr. Spincter is your man. Need a dentist? Advice on love? Got two left feet? Titters, Giggles, and Tears delivers (the author, almost literally!).
The author demonstrates what years of training and work in psychology does to the mind! If your IQ is below 100, you'll laugh at the raunchy parts and miss all the good stuff (like a kid watching the Simpsons). If your IQ is above 100 but below 130, you'll laugh at a lot of the plays on words even though you don't know what the words mean (like most of the crowd listening to Dennis Miller). For those who are cognitively well-endowed, I'd suggest wearing a diaper or sitting on the toilet to compensate for the incontinence that accompanies heavy laughter while you read.
Titters, Giggles and Tears. Laughing at life and playing with words Mar 24, 2008
Life, real or unreal can be funny if you know how to play with the words and circumstances of it all.
The writer playfully throws so called normalcy out the window and runs away with your funny bone, only to throw in a sober zinger a couple of times.
A must read! everyone needs to laugh out loud at life, and its related activities, or pretty much every thing.
Titters galore Mar 17, 2008
Do you like stories that take you into a different world? Fenichel's stories are nonsensical, witty, satirical, absurd, and touching. Reading them is moving and living in the world of Monty Python and Alice in Wonderland for Adults while being totally sober. You meet characters such as the logically illogical proctologist Stanley Spincter who takes your word (but hands it back to you), learn the subtle perversities of the dentist's mind, the narcissist's pleasures of dating. Be touched by a playful, sad and tender Internet Romance, or the fate of the salesman's illustrious career. All these characters inhabit Fenichel's books, and are un-really alive. This is one of the funniest, most hilarious, comically strange books I have read in a long time. It takes you on a journey of laughs from beginning to end. I am already looking forward to his next book, and to meeting more of his originals and oddballs.
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